3 faculty liberal arts political science jobs found in Hartford, CT

Yale University: Institution for Social and Policy Studies Location New Haven, CT Open Date Dec 13, 2022 Deadline Dec 15, 2023 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description Professor Hélène Landemore seeks a postdoctoral associate for a one-year, full-time appointment beginning July 1, 2023. The successful candidate will be someone capable of helping her conduct research along two different axes, one of which is specifically related to the Democratic Innovations program at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Projects will include but are not limited to research on the 2019-20 French citizens’ convention on climate and the 2022-2023 French citizens’ convention on end of life. The postdoctoral associate will help, among other things, with the production, organization, transcription, translation, and analysis of interviews conducted in French. The other distinct line of research is on the ethics of artificial intelligence. In both areas...

Description The Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) invites postdoctoral students and untenured scholars to apply for its Democratic Innovations Fellowship. Democratic Innovations is an interdisciplinary ISPS program bringing together social scientists from a variety of fields to think about the factors that affect government policy and decision-making and to analyze novel institutions that might support improvements in representation and government performance.  To deepen our understanding of political representation, collective choice, and government performance, we seek scholars who are studying the political economy of democratic political institutions. Topics of great interest to our group include, but are not limited to: institutional improvements to promote efficient, evidence-based political decisions, how ideas spread and what institutions can catalyze faster social learning, theoretical and empirical analysis of novel systems of...